Kency Cornejo

Assistant Professor Kency Cornejo received an appointment in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of New Mexico in 2014. She is a scholar of contemporary and modern Latin American art history, with emphasis on Central America and its diaspora. She offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate art history courses. Dr. Cornejo’s teaching and research interests focus on a wide range of topics, including: art and politics, decoloniality, femicide, immigration, prisons, captivity, transnationalism, gangs, and indigenous rights and epistemologies. Currently, Cornejo is working on her first book manuscript based on her dissertation, Visual Disobedience: The Geopolitics of Experimental Art in Central America, 1990-Present, which critically analyzes twenty-five years of contemporary art in post-war Central America.